Cleopatra (69-30 BC) is often best known for her dramatic death, allegedly from the fatal ... she poisoned herself with toxic ointment. The Queen - the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, effectively ...

Cleopatra (69-30 BC) is often best known for her dramatic death, allegedly from the fatal bite of a venomous snake. Other ...

Researchers Stunned After Skull Believed to Have Belonged to Queen Cleopatra's Sister Was of a ... was a male aged 11 to 14 at the time of death. They also noticed developmental defects like ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving ... center of the Mediterranean for a few centuries after Cleopatra's death. Then it began to dematerialize. With it went Egypt's ...

Cleopatra became queen following the death of her father in 51 BCE. However, the customs of ancient Egypt meant that she needed a male co-ruler and so Cleopatra married her younger brother ...

This portrayal hasn't been free of controversy, though - the decision to cast a black actress (Casualty's Adele James) as Cleopatra caused uproar in Egypt, where academics claim their queen was of ...

but it was a very original and very striking one . . . [Cleopatra] is seated in a chair; the poison of the asp has done its work and the Queen is dead. The effects of death are represented with ...

The latter was defeated by his rival Octavian in 31 BC. Cleopatra chose death by snake bite and Mark Antony died by his own sword. Cleopatra was the last of the Egyptian Pharaohs. This bronze coin ...